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Learning Process Part 4

We began to officially plan for our marriage. We went to sign-up a package from a bridal shop costing about SGD$1,000. Wow, if it’s in SG, think it would probably cost $4,000! Her family has a request: The marriage registration has to be done in Vietnam. Despite knowing the difficulties of doing the paperwork from the forum here, I agreed. My wife-to-be only finished high school and she was unaware of most of the paperwork needed to prepare for. She only knew she needed to get a letter from her provincial government to certify that she is single. I did not go through a marriage agent as I thought I could manage it by myself as I am a civil servant.

On one of the days, I was down with fever and it was raining quite heavily. But my wife-to-be rode on her motorbike in her raincoat to buy dinner for me and brought it to my hotel. I seriously thought I did not see any SG gals doing this for me ever in my life! After several days of staying at the hotel in Long Xuyen, she made the decision (With permission from her mother) for me to move to stay in her house for a few days so that there is no need to travel to and fro between her house and the hotel. She slept with her mother in one room while I slept in her room. OMG! Troi Oi!! Other than during BMT in Pulau Tekong, this is the second time in my life that I am sleeping on a bed covered with mosquito net!!! There were many mosquitoes around for sure. There’s no toilet flushing system, there’s no water-heater. I needed to boil water so as to take a shower, otherwise their water is too cold! Ok, I’m damn living in a cave previously in SG. I didn’t know rooster can fly over a barrier! What an eye-opener! I cannot stand their sunrise, their sunrise is 5am and the roosters are calling from as early as 3am in the morning. That’s “kampong” life.

I brought her mother and her to HCMC and we stayed in a 3-star hotel in D1. We went to the hospital in D5 for the mental check-up. OMG!!! There were many other guys there with their future Vietnamese wives doing the same thing. I saw guys from Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea, USA and Europe too!!! Looks like many people are into Vietnamese Wives!!

After 16 days on this trip, I departed back to SG. My wife-to-be cried with tears rolling down her cheek while sending me off at the airport.

To be continued…..